"The Outsiders" Quote

"If you can picture a little dark puppy that had been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers, you have Johnny." I picked this quote because it really paints a picture in your head. To me this quote just shows how fragile Johnny really is. They compared him to something that we all know and love, this quote just makes us feel bad for Johnny because of the way it is well-worded. If the author would have just simply talked about Johnny getting beat up a lot, we wouldn't get the same feeling of delicacy an frailness. They compare him to something so weak and frail, and then they tell us that he has been kicked to many time,you just feel as if you need to help, as if you know him. This sentence makes us feel as if we have known Johnny for a long time, and yet all we know is that he is a dark puppy that's been kicked to many times ad he is lost in a crowd of strangers. They paint the classic sense in our head, dark puppy, walking through a sea of strangers. This sentence is just so powerful, so strong, and yet its simply comparing a boy to a lost puppy. In the second half of this quote, they tell us that he is lost in a crowd of people, this to me says that he just doesn't know who he is, and that he cant make up his mind. It think that the author did a great job describing Johnny to us in one sentence.